Worries for ports go back years
Thursday, February 23, 2006 Seth Borenstein and WILLIAM DOUGLAS - - Kansas City Star (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| Port security has gone from a backwater concern to a big issue since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
But now, some experts say, the controversy over the Bush administration’s approval of a United Arab Emirates-owned firm to run operations at six U.S. ports is diverting attention from real port security issues.
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Committee fears effect of downsizing Guard
Thursday, February 9, 2006 Drew Brown - - Kansas City Star (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| House Armed Services Committee members expressed concerns Wednesday about downsizing the National Guard.
Some suggested that they might propose adding money to President Bush’s $439 billion 2007 defense budget request.
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Army says it won't cut National Guard, Reserve troops
Friday, February 3, 2006 Drew Brown - - Kansas City Star (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| The Army has no plans to cut National Guard and Army Reserve troops, senior Army officials said Thursday, responding to complaints from governors and members of Congress that the Army's restructuring plan would weaken those forces.
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Mine accident probe starts taking shape
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
AP's DAVID DISHNEAU - - Kansas City Star
| As the investigation into the Sago Mine disaster took shape Monday, the best hope for firsthand details about the explosion and its aftermath lay in critical condition, fighting a fever.
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Abramoff started his career at the bottom
Tuesday, January 3, 2006 STEVEN THOMMA - - Kansas City Star (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| For a Republican, Jack Abramoff started at the bottom of the bottom: in Massachusetts, the quintessential "blue state."
He was a college kid from Brandeis University, working in 1980 to help elect Ronald Reagan. He worked closely with Grover Norquist, who'd go on to become an influential Republican strategist, anti-tax crusader and White House confidant.
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Suicide bomber kills 32 on bus in Baghdad
Friday, December 9, 2005
AP's ROBERT H. REID - - Kansas City Star
| A suicide bomber detonated explosives Thursday inside a packed bus bound for a southern Shiite city, killing 32 people and wounding 44, police said. The blast pushed the three-day death toll from suicide attacks in the capital to at least 75.
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Ex-professor cleared on some terror charges
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
AP's MITCH STACY - - Kansas City Star
| In a stinging defeat for federal prosecutors, a former Florida professor accused of helping lead a terrorist group that has carried out suicide bombings against Israel was acquitted on nearly half the charges against him Tuesday, and the jury deadlocked on the rest.
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Rice: U.S. terror policy tough, but legal
Monday, December 5, 2005
AP's ANNE GEARAN - - Kansas City Star
| Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice aggressively defended U.S. tactics against terrorism on Monday as tough but legal, and countered European complaints over reports of secret CIA-run prisons there by saying America's efforts with its allies have been "a two-way street" that have saved European and American lives.
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U.S. missile, al-Qaida death may be linked
Monday, December 5, 2005
AP's BASHIRULLAH KHAN - - Kansas City Star
| Shrapnel that appeared to be from an American-made missile was found Sunday at the house where Pakistan said a top al-Qaida operative was killed in an explosion, although President Bush's national security adviser declined to confirm the death.
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U.S. unprepared for super-flu pandemic
Sunday, November 20, 2005
AP's HOPE YEN - - Kansas City Star
| The U.S. is unprepared for the next flu pandemic, lacking the manufacturing capacity to provide 300 million doses of a vaccine for three to five more years, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said Sunday.
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Reporter survives Baghdad blasts, but they kill her feeling of safety
Friday, November 18, 2005 Leila Fadel - - Kansas City Star (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| After a late night writing about men who apparently were tortured in the back rooms of an Iraqi Interior Ministry building, I fell asleep on the couch in Knight Ridder's hotel in Baghdad early Friday morning, hoping for an easy day.
I awoke to the ground shaking under me. A thunderous boom cracked the windows on our floor in the Hamra Hotel. I ran to a small alcove near the door and waited.
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U.S. to Iraq: Curb use of Shiite militias
Thursday, November 17, 2005
AP's ROBERT H. REID - - Kansas City Star
| The Iraqi government has promised to investigate detention facilities across the country to ensure prisoners are not tortured, the United States said Thursday, sharply warning Iraqi officials against allowing Shiite militias a role in the security services following allegations of torture of Sunni Arabs.
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9/11 panel gives White House mixed review
Monday, November 14, 2005
AP's BARRY SCHWEID - - Kansas City Star
| Reviewing action on recommendations it made last year, the Sept. 11 commission on Monday criticized the Bush administration for not adopting standards for treatment of captured terror suspects.
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Troops search for Saddam's top deputy
Monday, November 14, 2005 Leila Fadel - - Kansas City Star (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| U.S. and Iraqi troops shut down the town of Dour near Tikrit on Monday in a search for Saddam Hussein's top deputy, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, whose death has been announced and contested on various Baath party Web sites.
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Iraqi woman confesses on Jordan TV
Sunday, November 13, 2005
AP's Jamal Halaby - - Kansas City Star
| An Iraqi woman confessed on Jordanian state television Sunday that she tried to blow herself up along with her husband during a hotel wedding reception last week, saying that the explosives concealed under her denim dress failed to detonate.
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Angry Jordanians rally to protest bombings
Thursday, November 10, 2005
AP's PAUL GARWOOD - - Kansas City Star
| Thousands of Jordanians rallied in the capital and other cities shouting "Burn in hell, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi!" a day after three deadly hotel bombings that killed at least 59 people. Officials suspected Iraqi involvement in the attacks, which were claimed by al-Qaida's Iraq branch.
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Gonorrhea rates fall but other STDs rise
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
AP's MIKE STOBBE - - Kansas City Star
| Gonorrhea has fallen to the lowest level on record in the United States, while the rates of other sexually transmitted diseases - syphilis and chlamydia - are on the rise, federal health officials said Tuesday.
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Supreme Court to hear tribunals challenge
Monday, November 7, 2005
AP's Gina Holland - - Kansas City Star
| The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a constitutional challenge to the Bush administration's military trials for foreign terror suspects, stepping into a high-stakes test of the president's wartime powers.
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Democrats force Senate into Iraq meeting
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
AP's LIZ SIDOTI - - Kansas City Star
| Democrats forced the Republican-controlled Senate into an unusual closed session Tuesday, questioning intelligence that President Bush used in the run-up to the war in Iraq and accusing Republicans of ignoring the issue.
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White House rebuffs calls for shakeup
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
AP's TERENCE HUNT - - Kansas City Star
| The White House on Monday rebuffed calls for a staff shakeup, the firing of Karl Rove and an apology by President Bush for the role of senior administration officials in the unmasking of CIA operative Valerie Plame.
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Two U.S. soldiers charged with assault
Sunday, October 30, 2005
AP's DANIEL COONEY - - Kansas City Star
| Two U.S. soldiers have been charged with assault for allegedly punching two detainees in the chest, shoulders and stomach at a military base in Afghanistan, the military said Sunday.
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Bush picks Alito for Supreme Court
Monday, October 31, 2005
AP's RON FOURNIER - - Kansas City Star
| President Bush, stung by the rejection of his first choice, nominated conservative judge Samuel Alito on Monday to replace moderate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in a bid to reshape the Supreme Court and mollify his political base.
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Saddam lawyers seek guarantee of safety
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
AP's SHAFIKA MATTAR - - Kansas City Star
| Iraqi lawyers defending Saddam Hussein said Wednesday they had suspended further dealings with the Special Tribunal trying him until their safety is guaranteed, citing the kidnapping and murder of a lawyer representing one of the former dictator's co-defendants last week.
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Bush won't release all Miers records
Monday, October 24, 2005
AP's NEDRA PICKLER - - Kansas City Star
| President Bush said Monday he would not release any records of his conversations with Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers that could threaten the confidentiality of advice that presidents get from their lawyers.
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Military paying inflated prices
Sunday, October 23, 2005 LAUREN MARKOE and Seth Borenstein - - Kansas City Star (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
| The Pentagon paid $20 apiece for plastic ice cube trays that once cost it 85 cents.
It paid a supplier more than $81 apiece for coffeemakers that it bought for years for just $29 from the manufacturer.
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Drug effective against early breast cancer
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
AP's JEFF DONN - - Kansas City Star
| A drug that targets only diseased cells has proved astonishingly effective against an aggressive form of early breast cancer - a long-sought breakthrough that has doctors talking about curing thousands of women each year in this country alone.
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Panel: Job programs for disabled inadequate
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
AP's KEVIN FREKING - - Kansas City Star
| Blind vendors who win government contracts rarely share that success by employing blind workers. Enormous salaries and lavish perks are being paid to executives of nonprofit organizations that hire the handicapped.
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Alaska refuge drilling OK'd in committee
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
AP's H. JOSEF HEBERT - - Kansas City Star
| A Senate committee voted Wednesday to include drilling in an Alaska wildlife refuge in a massive budget proposal, assuring that drilling opponents won't be able to use the filibuster to thwart oil development there.
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John Edwards starts poverty awareness tour
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
AP's WILLIAM L. HOLMES - - Kansas City Star
| Former Sen. John Edwards began a national anti-poverty campaign Monday by exhorting students at the University of North Carolina to launch a grass-roots effort similar to the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
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Study: Losing weight can help sex life
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
AP's MARILYNN MARCHIONE - - Kansas City Star
| Losing a little weight can do wonders for your sex life. So says Duke University psychologist Martin Binks, who presented a study Monday at a meeting of The Obesity Society showing that shedding a few pounds can improve things in the bedroom by making people feel better about their bodies.
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CIA manager to head Clandestine Service
Friday, October 14, 2005
AP's KATHERINE SHRADER - - Kansas City Star
| A top CIA manager who remains undercover will soon oversee traditional human spying activities for the entire intelligence community, a position created in the post-Sept. 11 intelligence overhaul.
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Both parties set to spar on budget cuts
Friday, October 14, 2005
AP's ANDREW TAYLOR - - Kansas City Star
| Congressional Democrats and their allies are ramping up a campaign against GOP plans to cut the federal budget to help finance hurricane relief. Republicans are convinced the cuts are an issue around which they can rally their core supporters.
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Judge to decide fate of soldier's remains
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
AP's Martha Mendoza - - Kansas City Star
| The final resting place of a 28-year-old soldier killed in Iraq is now in the hands of a judge who said he would have preferred the bitterly divided family could have resolved the matter without him.
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Iraqi lawmakers OK last-minute amendments
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
AP's MARIAM FAM - - Kansas City Star
| Iraqi lawmakers approved a set of last-minute amendments to the constitution without a vote on Wednesday, sealing a compromise designed to win Sunni support and boost chances for the charter's approval in a referendum just three days away.
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Judith Miller to make 2nd grand jury visit
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
AP's PETE YOST - - Kansas City Star
| New York Times reporter Judith Miller on Tuesday turned over notes of a previously undisclosed conversation with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff and underwent questioning by prosecutors in the criminal probe of the Bush administration's leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.
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Police make first arrest in Bali bombings
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
AP's Chris Brummitt - - Kansas City Star
| Investigators announced a key arrest Tuesday in the suicide attacks this month against three Bali restaurants, as the island boosted security for a memorial service to the 202 people killed in the terrorist attacks three years ago.
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Laura Bush visits KC school
Tuesday, October 11, 2005 RICK MONTGOMERY - - Kansas City Star
| First Lady Laura Bush visited a Kansas City grade school Tuesday to watch fathers do what they’re supposed to do – read to their kids, laugh with them, be with them.
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Ex-CIA chief urges new reorganization
Friday, October 7, 2005
AP's RICHARD PYLE - - Kansas City Star
| The recently revamped U.S. intelligence structure needs a further and more radical overhaul that would combine all intelligence-gathering under one roof, separate from the analytical function, a former chief of intelligence said Thursday.
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Bush presses vaccine makers on bird flu
Friday, October 7, 2005
AP's LAURAN NEERGAARD - - Kansas City Star
| President Bush summoned vaccine manufacturers to a White House meeting Friday, hoping to personally boost the rickety industry amid increasing fears of a worldwide outbreak of bird flu. It's the latest in a flurry of preparations for a possible pandemic after criticism of the government's response to Hurricane Katrina.
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Witness: 'Design' replaced 'creation'
Thursday, October 6, 2005
AP's MARTHA RAFFAELE - - Kansas City Star
| References to creationism in drafts of a student biology book were replaced with the term "intelligent design" by the time it was published, a witness testified Wednesday in a landmark trial over a school board's decision to include the concept in its curriculum.
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Some unhappy with Bush pick for high court
Thursday, October 6, 2005
AP's JESSE J. HOLLAND - - Kansas City Star
| Not satisfied with President Bush's word, conservative senators and others questioned Wednesday whether Harriet Miers was the best Supreme Court nominee a self-proclaimed conservative Republican president could find.
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Afghan Vote counting nears completion
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
AP's Matthew Pennington - - Kansas City Star
| Powerful warlords, a former Taliban commander and women's activists were among the frontrunners as vote counting drew to a close Tuesday in Afghanistan's first parliamentary elections in more than 30 years.
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Sen. Nelson: Americans fed up with GOP
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
AP's Brendan Farrington - - Kansas City Star
| The nation has become fed up with Republican leadership and the United States can still free itself of foreign oil in 10 years if it focuses on alternative fuel like ethanol, Sen. Bill Nelson said Tuesday.
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Grand jury re-indicts DeLay on new charge
Monday, October 3, 2005
AP's APRIL CASTRO - - Kansas City Star
| A Texas grand jury on Monday re-indicted Rep. Tom DeLay on charges of conspiring to launder money and money laundering after the former majority leader attacked last week's indictment on technical grounds.
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If Army met goal, 'stop-loss' may've eased
Monday, October 3, 2005
AP's ROBERT BURNS - - Kansas City Star
| If the Army had met its recruiting goals, it might have been able to ease a restrictive wartime practice known as "stop-loss" that has kept tens of thousands of soldiers from leaving the service at the end of their enlistment tours or retirement dates, the Army's No. 2 general said Monday.
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Iraq constitution distributed before vote
Monday, October 3, 2005
AP's NICK WADHAMS - - Kansas City Star
| The United Nations has begun distributing millions of copies of Iraq's draft constitution ahead of an Oct. 15 referendum to approve or reject the document, which was reportedly criticized in a leaked U.N. memo.
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Judge orders release of Abu Ghraib photos
Friday, September 30, 2005
AP's LARRY NEUMEISTER - - Kansas City Star
| A federal judge Thursday ordered the release of dozens more pictures of prisoners being abused at Abu Ghraib, rejecting government arguments that the images would provoke terrorists and incite violence against U.S. troops in Iraq.
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Venezuela condemns U.S. ruling
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
AP's IAN JAMES - - Kansas City Star
| Venezuela on Wednesday condemned a U.S. court ruling that blocks the deportation of a Cuban militant wanted in the South American country for a 1976 airliner bombing, denying a judge's claims that he could be tortured if handed over. Cuba called the decision "disgraceful."
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Roberts near becoming next chief justice
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
AP's JESSE J. HOLLAND - - Kansas City Star
| A divided Democratic caucus on Wednesday assured Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. of a comfortable, bipartisan Senate confirmation as the nation's 17th chief justice, the youngest in 200 years.
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Indicted DeLay steps down from House post
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
AP's LARRY MARGASAK - - Kansas City Star
| House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was indicted by a Texas grand jury Wednesday on a charge of conspiring to violate political fundraising laws, forcing him to temporarily step aside from his GOP post. He is the highest-ranking member of Congress to face criminal prosecution.
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House nixes naming post office for Shirek
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
AP's ERICA WERNER - - Kansas City Star
| House Republicans on Tuesday rejected a Democratic resolution to name a post office in Berkeley, Calif., after a longtime local activist and city councilwoman, saying 94-year-old Maudelle Shirek doesn't represent American values.
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Frist denies wrongdoing in stock sale
Monday, September 26, 2005
AP's LARRY MARGASAK - - Kansas City Star
| Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday he had no insider information when he sold stock this summer in HCA Inc., the hospital company founded by his father and brother. The Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission are looking into the sales.
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Gunmen kill five Shiite teachers in Iraq
Monday, September 26, 2005
AP's LEE KEATH - - Kansas City Star
| Insurgents dragged five Shiite Muslim schoolteachers and their driver into a classroom, lined them against a wall and gunned them down Monday - slayings in Iraq's notorious Triangle of Death that reflect the enflamed sectarian divisions ahead of a crucial constitutional referendum.
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Israel kills militant chief in offensive
Sunday, September 25, 2005
AP's Lara Sukhtian - - Kansas City Star
| Israel pressed forward with a broad offensive against Islamic militants on Sunday, killing an Islamic Jihad commander in a pinpoint airstrike in the Gaza Strip and rounding up more than 200 wanted Palestinians. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised to use "all means" against the militants.
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Bush vows to act on national rescue plan
Sunday, September 25, 2005
AP's JENNIFER LOVEN - - Kansas City Star
| President Bush on Sunday wrapped up a three-day trip designed to convey hands-on leadership during the Gulf Coast hurricanes, promising to act on military leaders' request for a national search-and-rescue strategy.
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Who says a lawyer needs law school?
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
AP's REBECCA CARROLL - - Kansas City Star
| Rebecca Valois is working to become a lawyer - without setting foot in a law school.
She's studied for three years at the private Virginia practice of her mother-in-law, Judith Valois, who was admitted to the state bar in 1986 after getting her legal education from her husband.
They are "law readers" - people who study law in offices or judges' chambers rather than classrooms.
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Sen. Reid says he'll vote against Roberts
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
AP's DAVID ESPO - - Kansas City Star
| Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said Tuesday he would oppose confirmation of Chief Justice-nominee John Roberts, questioning Roberts' commitment to civil rights and accusing the Bush administration of stonewalling requests for documents that might shed light on his views.
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Levin threatens to block Homeland nominee
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
AP's LARA JAKES JORDAN - - Kansas City Star
| A Democratic senator threatened Tuesday to block approval of a Homeland Security Department nominee until he receives a secret FBI memo about terror suspect interrogations that he's been seeking for months.
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Bush administration touts Rita readiness
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
AP's LARA JAKES JORDAN - - Kansas City Star
| Eager to avoid the public pounding he got for his response to Hurricane Katrina, President Bush pledged on Wednesday to be "ready for the worst" as another big hurricane headed for the Gulf Coast.
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New Orleans suspends reopening of city
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
AP's MICHAEL RUBINKAM - - Kansas City Star
| Under pressure from President Bush and other top federal officials, the mayor suspended the reopening of large portions of the city Monday and instead ordered nearly everyone out because of the risk of a new round of flooding from a tropical storm on the way.
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Kerry, Edwards blast Bush over Katrina
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
AP's JUAN-CARLOS RODRIGUEZ - - Kansas City Star
| Two Democrats who might seek the White House again in 2008 criticized President Bush for his response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, assailing the suspension of wage laws while urging a concerted effort to aid the poor.
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Bush vows aid for storm-struck Gulf Coast
Friday, September 16, 2005
AP's TERENCE HUNT and NEDRA PICKLER - - Kansas City Star
| President Bush promised Thursday night the government will pay most of the costs of rebuilding the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast in one of the largest reconstruction projects the world has ever seen. "There is no way to imagine America without New Orleans, and this great city will rise again," the president said.
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U.S. ready to delay showdown on Iran
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
AP's BARRY SCHWEID - - Kansas City Star
| Apparently lacking the votes to win, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice indicated Wednesday the Bush administration was prepared to delay again a showdown with Iran over its nuclear weapons program.
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Roberts fields hours of questions
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
AP's NANCY BENAC - - Kansas City Star
| For a man who likens the job he wants to calling balls and strikes, John Roberts surely could have used a catcher's mask as he fielded hours of questions Tuesday from the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Acting FEMA head has hurricane experience
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
AP's DARLENE SUPERVILLE - - Kansas City Star
| R. David Paulison was just six weeks into his new job as fire chief in Florida's Miami-Dade County when Hurricane Andrew struck, practically leveling the town of Homestead, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless and causing billions of dollars in damage.
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Passengers freed on hijacked Colombian jet
Monday, September 12, 2005
AP's ANDREW SELSKY - - Kansas City Star
| A father in a wheelchair and his son hijacked an airliner Monday, claiming to be armed with grenades, but they freed all the passengers more than four hours after landing in Bogota, authorities said. The crew was reported still on the plane.
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Hopelessness begins to lift in New Orleans
Sunday, September 11, 2005
AP's ERIN McCLAM - - Kansas City Star
| Workers here were picking up trash Sunday, a small miracle under the circumstances. The airport opened to cargo traffic. A bullhorn-wielding volunteer led relief workers in a chorus of "Amazing Grace."
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Democrats rip Bush hurricane response
Monday, September 12, 2005
AP's LARRY MARGASAK - - Kansas City Star
| Louisiana's senior senator on Sunday escalated the Democrats' rhetoric against the Bush administration's hurricane response, accusing the White House of a "full court press" to blame state and local officials for the initial sluggish rescue effort.
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Katrina divides rather than unifies U.S.
Friday, September 9, 2005
AP's DARLENE SUPERVILLE - - Kansas City Star
| The extraordinary showing of national and political unity displayed after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is nowhere to be found in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Finger pointing and blame games have replaced the images of stunned Americans rallying around President Bush and of members of Congress standing on the steps of the Capitol singing "God Bless America."
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U.S. offers Katrina families $2,000 each
Wednesday, September 7, 2005
AP's DAVID ESPO - - Kansas City Star
| Dispossessed families of Hurricane Katrina will receive debit cards good for $2,000 to spend on clothing and other immediate needs, the Bush administration announced Wednesday, working to recast a relief effort drawing scant praise from Republicans and scathing criticism from top congressional Democrats.
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Bush to speak at Rehnquist funeral
Wednesday, September 7, 2005
AP's Gina Holland - - Kansas City Star
| Teary-eyed Supreme Court justices, a somber President Bush and one-time clerk John Roberts led a long line of Americans paying their last respects to William H. Rehnquist, the chief justice whose conservatism helped drive the high court toward the right.
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Lawmakers look for ways to cut gas prices
Wednesday, September 7, 2005
AP's JR ROSS - - Kansas City Star
| Lawmakers around the country are entertaining proposals to ease the pain of soaring gas prices for consumers, considering everything from suspensions of local gas taxes to rebates for motorists.
But, so far, some are reluctant to act, partly out of concern for their states' bottom lines but also because they wonder whether motorists will even notice the difference if prices continue to climb.
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Bush chooses Roberts, weighs other vacancy
Monday, September 5, 2005
AP's TERENCE HUNT - - Kansas City Star
| Seizing a historic opportunity to reshape the Supreme Court, President Bush swiftly chose conservative John Roberts as chief justice Monday and weighed how to fill another vacancy that could push the nation's highest court to the right on issues from abortion to affirmative action.
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Red tape hinders help for Katrina victims
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
AP's Martha Mendoza - - Kansas City Star
| From all corners of this country, hundreds of would-be rescuers are wending their way to the beleaguered Gulf Coast in buses, vans and trailers. But government red tape has hampered many who ache to help Katrina's victims.
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